Posted on 09/15/2024 5:16:59 PM PDT by bitt
A New York Times report was discovered on Sunday mentioning Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, who was caught targeting Trump, armed with a scoped AK-47 rifle in West Palm Beach before shots were fired by the Secret Service.
The New York Times was actually in contact with and interviewed Routh for their article.
In an oddly coincidental Truth Social post, just hours before the attempted shooting, Trump said, “THE FAILING NEW YORK TIMES IS A TRUE THREAT TO DEMOCRACY!”
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/113142180434016846
The article from the Times ties the would-be shooter to nutbag MSNBC terrorism analyst Malcolm Nance, who once called for ISIS to bomb the Trump Tower in Istanbul.
In 2022, when war broke out in Ukraine, Nance traveled to Ukraine and claimed he had joined the fighting against Russia.
The New York Times editorial, titled “Stolen Valor: The U.S. Volunteers in Ukraine Who Lie, Waste and Bicker,” references the International Legion created by Ukraine for allied foreign fighters to join the war effort, which both Routh and Nance were part of.
Routh is mentioned twice in the article. He alleges that he had planned to move recruits for the war effort into Ukraine illegally from Pakistan and Iran. New York Times excerpt:
With Legion growth stalling, Ryan Routh, a former construction worker from Greensboro, N.C., is seeking recruits from among Afghan soldiers who fled the Taliban. Mr. Routh, who spent several months in Ukraine last year, said he planned to move them, in some cases illegally, from Pakistan and Iran to Ukraine. He said dozens had expressed interest.
“We can probably purchase some passports through Pakistan, since it’s such a corrupt country,” he said in an interview from Washington.
It is not clear whether he has succeeded, but one former Afghan soldier said he had been contacted and was interested in fighting if it meant leaving Iran, where he was living illegally.
Nance was mentioned 12 times and reportedly used his intelligence background to relay information to Ukrainian counterintelligence. From NYT:
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The Ukrainians knew he was nuts and deported him.
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Send him back..... he needs to “die for his country.”
“A construction worker out recruiting Former Afghan Soldiers to fight in Ukraine?”
Let me guess, he looked up “Former Afghan Soldiers” in the Yellow Pages and worked out everything else from there.
Can’t find the quote from Our Man Flint of James Coburn insulting the villain Malcolm Rodney(Edward Mulhare): “Why is it all the ones named Malcolm are bad?”
Fake news. The Ukrainians wanted no part of him.
I remember when that NYT article was discussed here on FR. What a fruitcake this guy is.
Article can be read here:
Ukraine might have a pretty good fighting force, if we deported all the Ukrainian immigrants in the last 2.5 years back to Kiev.
Start in Brighton Beach-Brooklyn, we’ll have less cab drivers but Zelensky needs an army.
“This is a 1776 moment” (sarcasm)
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-suspect-shooting-assassination-attempt-west-palm-beach-1954191
good info here.
CNN chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst John Miller reported Sunday afternoon that Routh’s social media accounts have focused on his “self-proclaimed involvement” in the war in Ukraine, including his supposed effort to recruit soldiers to fight in the conflict. Routh also claimed to have fought in Ukraine as it continues to hold off Russia’s invasion.
self proclaimed
got a link for that?
So, Routh’s a zeeper.
Wonder what else besides a failed assassin who can still talk...
I figure the reason they haven't shown up on these threads is because they're all busy deleting their text messages with Routh.
Everyday I say a prayer for PDJT today I said it first thing. Everyone should pray daily for Donald Trump he is a leader and the world needs him.
Yes, and that SOMEONE should be all caps.
Get that demented geezer an iPad.
More:
It is not clear whether he has succeeded, but one former Afghan soldier said he had been contacted and was interested in fighting if it meant leaving Iran, where he was living illegally.
Real straight-up right-flying all-American Boy Scout type, eh?
Kooks, grifters and troubled souls who are wannabe heroes are always attracted to wars they have no business being anywhere near, but this nutcase just shamelessly runs his mouth.
Well said, and bears repeating. Daily prayers are needed.
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